Rudd prompts renewed video probe

The Australian Federal Police is still talking to potential witnesses over the leaking of a video featuring an angry, swearing Kevin Rudd, after additional people were identified by the former prime minister.

The video, filmed in 2009 when Mr Rudd was prime minister, was leaked in February last year, further inflaming Labor's leadership tensions. It showed out-takes of Mr Rudd recording a message in Mandarin.

On Tuesday, the federal police said that while the matter ''remained finalised'', it was ''talking to some additional people who were identified by Mr Rudd as being potential witnesses''. It is understood these include former staff of Mr Rudd's in 2009 and staff members of Ms Gillard's in early 2012.

A spokesman for Mr Rudd, who is travelling to the World Economic Forum in Davos, said the Member for Griffith referred the matter to police last year as it related to a ''possible theft and unauthorised used of Commonwealth information''.

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The spokesman said that since the federal police finalised their investigation, ''further information has been drawn formally to their attention and as a result it is understood statements have been requested from various individuals to clarify these matters further''.

Last year, Ms Gillard said her office did not have access to the material put on YouTube and that any suggestions her office was connected with the leak were ''completely untrue''.

The secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Ian Watt, sent a statement to staff last year, saying an internal review showed the video had not come from the department.